Thinking Strategically

The Competitive Edge in Business, Politics, and Everyday Life

By: Avinash K. Dixit

Narrated by: Mark Delgado

The international best seller - don't compete without it!

A major best seller in Japan, Financial Times top-ten book of the year, Book-of-the-Month Club best seller, and required reading at the best business schools, Thinking Strategically is a crash course in outmaneauvering any rival. This entertaining guide builds on scores of case studies taken from business, sports, the movies, politics, and gambling. It outlines the basics of good strategy-making and then shows how you can apply them in any area of your life.

©1991 Avinash K. Dixit and Barry J. Nalebuff (P)2013 Audible, Inc.

Dominating read

A good layman's review of game theory including topics such as the prisoners dilemma and other strategies to negotiate for optimal outcomes. Key theory was put yourself in the other person's shoes and look ahead to know where they want to end up and the plan back to drive for your optional outcome.

Robotic performance!

Would you recommend this audiobook to a friend? If so, why?

I would recommend and will purchase the hardcopy as a great reference and case study product. The narration was just horrible. A wonderful and well-written text with a robot reader. Why would Audible subject their audience to this one--youck!

If you’ve listened to books by Avinash K. Dixit before, how does this one compare?

Not applicable.

How could the performance have been better?

Are you kidding? This performance can go nowhere but up. Terrible!

Was this a book you wanted to listen to all in one sitting?

No.

Any additional comments?

This is a book that I found very interesting. The quantitative decision making process is one of my favorite process tostudy and theorize upon. Great illustrations. But buy the book, the narrator is like a robot. Sorry robots!

Don't buy as and audible book

Would you recommend this book to a friend? Why or why not?

Not a good choice if you are going to listen to it as opposed to read it.

Good content best suited for printed book Not Audio

This book has good content. It touches on a number of mathematical theories and illustrates their application with examples. This is essentially the content of the book and helps you to organize your thoughts objectively when assessing scenarios.
I do not recommend it as an audiobook, however. There are references made to graphical examples aligned with explanations that I'd guess are available on printed or soft version (non audio) version of the book itself. This makes it difficult to follow at times.
Good option to read & perhaps combined with audio to compliment it.

Game Theory

The author takes a narrow view of strategy. Although game theory is useful in understanding how a competitor may maneuver and this can be used to determine how best you can position yourself in anticipation or in reaction to an opponent's move, I'd argue this book is more about tactics than strategy.